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A New Look for Google Mobile

By Roy Furchgott May 10, 2010 4:30 pmMay 10, 2010 4:30 pm

You may have noticed a change in Google online, the addition of a column on the left side that lets you narrow your results to just images, videos, blogs, shopping and other categories. That change has come to Google mobile as well, although it is concealed.

When you use Google on the iPhone or on an Android phone, you may notice two small arrows on a button to the left of the field where you type in your search terms. Touch that box and a column will appear.

The box lets you sort by type (videos, blogs and so forth), time period (24 hours to a year or custom dates), or just images. If you don’t want the menu on the left, touch the arrows again to remove it.

As simple as it is, it is a useful tool, once you know where to find it.

Google has added another tool as well, specifically for Android phones running systems 1.6 and higher. Google Goggles, the image recognition software, can recognize English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, and can translate those languages into several others as well.

To use it, point Google Goggles at the text you want to translate, draw a box around the words you want to translate and press the shutter button. If it recognizes the text, it will offer to translate it for you. Google said its eventual goal was to also translate non-Latin languages like Chinese, Hindi and Arabic.

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